Possibly the two most descriptive terms for this current government. They couldn't pour piss from a shoe, if the instructions were on the sole.
On the 4th May, the Death Secretary, Hancock said the creation of a contact-tracing system was a “huge national undertaking of unprecedented scale and...
I'm not sure whether this is irony or not, so apologies is if it.
You know that GDPR has a number of exemptions. You can see all of them here; https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/exemptions/
One of them is this...
This with bells on. The decentralised model is the way forward, even the Germans have committed to a u-turn on the centralised model due to privacy concerns. Yet the UK are continuing with it.
Interesting as well that the "bantz" consideration has been raised in an article in the Independent...
Not quite the same as your personal data being used for healthcare. This an app which will track and trace you, include data about you, and you're location.
And from a later article;
"During the committee hearing, Gould was also pressed on what will happen to data sets uploaded to the central server once the app has been required (sic). He said such data sets could be used for “research purposes”.
“There is the possibility of being able to use the...
Interesting article on the app. Concerns have been raised by a lot of Security and Data academics.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/uk-privacy-and-security-experts-warn-over-coronavirus-app-mission-creep/
Seems to be a slight witch hunt going on in this thread. So unlike NSC :D. If someone doesn't want to download the app because they have data privacy concerns then that is their right. Taking the piss out of them because of it ,seems a little playground imho.
Cummings and his relationship to...